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• I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.

  Vanilla Ice

  Jumping, Years, Broken

  "Catching Up with ...", www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.

  Miranda July

  Sleep, Hours, Obsessing

  "This much I know: Miranda July" by Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2011.

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• I started writing songs when I was eight.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Song, Writing, Writing Songs

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• Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Sleep, Night, Two

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• The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.

  Joe Morton

  Character, Mean, Giving

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• I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.

  Juliet Mills

  School, Years, Dancer

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• The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.

  William O. Douglas

  Writing, Liberty, Majority

  The New York Times Interview, October 29, 1973.

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• I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Years, People, Stories

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• The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Sunset, Years, Nine

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• I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.

  Marla Maples

  Jobs, Home, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.

  Ryan McGinley

  Mom, Brother, Teenager

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• I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

  Kathy Najimy

  Hovering, Size, Pounds

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• Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.

  Peter R. Orszag

  Interesting, Important, Different

  "How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes America Work" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2010.

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• When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

  Tea Obreht

  Mother, Black And White, Years

  "Téa Obreht" by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• If I did not have my wife, I wouldn't be married, I wouldn't have the life that I have and I wouldn't have my wonderful baby boy who's not a baby anymore - he's going to be eight-years-old.

  Brian Littrell

  Baby, Boys, Years

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• I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

  Chord Overstreet

  Guitar, Years, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.

  Tamora Pierce

  Dream, Father, Writing

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• You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

  Ann Patchett

  Thinking, Wind, Parent

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• Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

  Dev Patel

  Years, Training, Taekwondo

  "One last thing... Dev Patel". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. August 06, 2010.

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• I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

  Ian Rankin

  Football, Cutting, Men

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

  Brett Ratner

  Years, Cameras, Stories

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• I did some pretty crazy stuff that I never thought I would do, for the sake of a movie, like surfing in eight-foot waves in pitch-black darkness, where I can't see anything. That still haunts me, kind of, in my nightmares, but it was worth it, it was fun.

  Leven Rambin

  Fun, Crazy, Feet

  "EXCLUSIVE: Leven Rambin Talks Chasing Mavericks Blu-ray" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 01, 2013.

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• I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

  Emanuel Steward

  Games, Boxing, Feelings

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• Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother.

  Samantha Stosur

  Brother, Years, Little Sister

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

  Andrew Sullivan

  Mother, Said, No Hope

  "Andrew Sullivan, American by Choice". Interview with Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.

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